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"No one has ever produced a statement of fact that was technically true. The most accurate statements of science we have today are accurate to only 15 decimal places."
- Bart Kosko
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| Oxygen Fountain | ||
| A small factory for making oxygen on the Martian surface. |
| Making oxygen is the trick. Cracking water - hydrolysis - is comparatively easy; CO2 and oxidized dust take more energy and time. That's why we need fountains. Fountains are big, often the size of a semi cab... They plop down on the Red and if the dust is deep enough - if they're not on impenetrable hardpan - they burrow in and almost immediately pop out solar collectors and extraction vanes and whirl the vanes to collect moisture from the air. |
| Technovelgy from War Dogs,
by Greg Bear. Published by Orbit in 2014 Additional resources -
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Compare to vaporators from Star Wars (1976) by George Lucas.
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